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European Respiratory Society
The ERS provides formative and summative assessments with the European examinations taking place during the annual ERS congress, and in the Netherlands and Russia.
90 multiple choice questions had to be solved within a 3 hour period for this examination.
Rate of participation and their performance in relation to the minimally required score over the period from 2008-2012 for diploma candidates are reviewed. These knowledge-based assessments are run and taken voluntarily by already-qualified respiratory specialists where they receive a European Diploma if successful since 2008. Switzerland uses this examination as the knowledge part of the national exit examination of Switzerland. These examination goals were introduced in 2010. The examination is an obligatory in-training assessment in the Netherlands.
- 11 sessions in 6 different cities in the last 5 years
- Adult respiratory medicine and paediatric respiratory medicine
- 510 diploma participants
- 52 self-assessment participants
- 346 intraining assessment participants
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Total of 908 participants
There is an increasing participation in the examination since its introduction. The perceived
value of the ERS examinations are based on its links to practice, educational benefit to its users
and the attitude and rigour by which it is set up.
There are 330 adult and paediatric respiratory medicine diplomates to date.
J-L Noel, T Severin and KE Bloch. The European Diploma in Adult Respiratory Medicine: a label of quality for adult respiratory
medical specialists. Breathe March 2010 Volume 6 No 3
J-L Noel. Getting ready to sit a HERMES examination: practical issues and tips. Breathe March 2013 Volume 9 No 3
A yearly increase in participants for the European diploma was observed. Participation numbers for in-training and self-assessment suggests increasing interest.
Success rates and minimum passing score rates are shown. There is increasing success rate and stable minimum passing score rates from 2008 to 2012 in the adult respiratory medicine European examination for the European diploma.
More countries are expected to adopt the examination for their training, diplomas and
certification with the increasing need of many countries to have ongoing evaluation of medical
practitioners. Successful models of collaboration with countries (i.e. Switzerland, Netherlands
and Russia) in the use of the examination demonstrate educational, logistical, financial and
cultural benefits.
ERS Adult Respiratory Medicine Examination Committee: Prof. Konrad E. Bloch (Chair), Prof. Thomas Brack, Prof. Richard Costello, Dr Mina Gaga, Dr Ildiko Horvath, Dr Christian Lo Cascio, and Prof. Frank Smeenk
ERS Paediatric Respiratory Medicine Examination Committee: Dr Robert Dinwiddie (Chair), Prof. Eugenio Baraldi,Prof. Paul Brand, Prof. Ernst Eber, Dr Gunilla Hedlin, Prof. Monika Gappa, and Dr James Paton
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